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Hamilton College plays in the Liberty League field hockey championship tournament for the first time in the seven-year history of the event at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., on Nov. 7 and 8.

Hamilton College men's cross country runner Peter Kosgei '10 (Kapsabet, Kenya/Kapsabet Boys' HS) has earned Most Outstanding Performer and First Team all-conference honors from the New England Small College Athletic Conference for 2008.

Three Hamilton College men's soccer players were honored by the Liberty League on Nov. 6 when the league selected its 2008 end-of-season award winners.

Arlene Blum, an author and prominent figure in women's mountaineering, will present a lecture on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton College's Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Blum's lecture is titled "Breaking Trail: Mountains and Molecules," which recounts her numerous mountain-climbing adventures.

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnsn Family Professor of Geosciences, recently presented two invited lectures. He spoke at the Department of Geology at the University of Nebraska on Friday Oct. 31 as part of the regular lecture series in that department. Domack also lectured at the New York State Science Teachers Association and National Earth Science Teachers Association at the annual meeting in Rochester on Nov. 2. Both talks were on environmental change and the Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica.

Daniel Hooley, professor of classics at the University of Missouri, will present the Classics Department's Winslow lecture on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Chris Abani, a Nigerian writer and professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, will read from his fiction and poetry on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel as part of the English department's fall 2008 reading series. It is free and open to the public.

Charter Trustee David Blood '81, managing partner of Generation Investment Management and Al Gore, chairman of the firm and former U.S. vice president, co-authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal titled "We Need Sustainable Capitalism" (11/5/08).

Students, parents and faculty gathered in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House for "Midnight Madness" late in the evening of Saturday, Nov. 1, to celebrate the beginning of the basketball season with Hamilton's men's and women's teams and raise money for the Johnson Park Center in Utica.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department presents Roberto Zucco by French contemporary playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes. Directed by Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp with a cast of Hamilton College students, the production runs Nov. 6-8 and 12-15, at 8 p.m., and Nov. 8 and 15 at 2 p.m. All performances are in Minor Theater.